Usually means: Stratum within a structured arrangement.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word layer:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. layer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. layer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. layer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. layer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. layer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Layer, layer: Wordnik
  7. layer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Layer, layer: Wiktionary
  9. layer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. layer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. layer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. layer: Dictionary.com
  13. layer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. layer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Layer (disambiguation), Layer (electronics), Layer (object-oriented design), Layer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Layer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. layer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. layer: Rhymezone
  19. layer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. layer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. layer: Free Dictionary
  22. layer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. layer: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. layer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. layer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. layer: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. layer: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Layer (abstraction), layer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. layer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LAYER, LAYER, LAYER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. layer: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Layer: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. layer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. layer: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. layer: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  6. Layer: Fiberglass Glossary
  7. LAYER: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  8. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See layered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
noun:  An item of clothing worn under or over another.
noun:  A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
noun:  One of the items in a hierarchy.
noun:  (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
noun:  (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cut or divide into layers.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To arrange in layers.
noun:  A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
noun:  A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
noun:  A hen kept to lay eggs.
noun:  A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
noun:  A surname.

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